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    A Boring Story: Anton Chekhov

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    1) Nikolay Stepanovitch is an emeritus professor and privy councillor in Russia who has received many decorations for his accomplishments and connections to distinguished men of learning over the past 25-30 years. 2) His name is well known in Russia and abroad as an honored and distinguished scholar. To criticize or misuse his name would be considered in poor taste. 3) He describes himself as having great industry, endurance, talent, and being well-educated, modest, and honest. He has avoided controversy or seeking popularity to protect his respected name.

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    A Boring Story: Anton Chekhov

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    1) Nikolay Stepanovitch is an emeritus professor and privy councillor in Russia who has received many decorations for his accomplishments and connections to distinguished men of learning over the past 25-30 years. 2) His name is well known in Russia and abroad as an honored and distinguished scholar. To criticize or misuse his name would be considered in poor taste. 3) He describes himself as having great industry, endurance, talent, and being well-educated, modest, and honest. He has avoided controversy or seeking popularity to protect his respected name.

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    1) Nikolay Stepanovitch is an emeritus professor and privy councillor in Russia who has received many decorations for his accomplishments and connections to distinguished men of learning over the past 25-30 years. 2) His name is well known in Russia and abroad as an honored and distinguished scholar. To criticize or misuse his name would be considered in poor taste. 3) He describes himself as having great industry, endurance, talent, and being well-educated, modest, and honest. He has avoided controversy or seeking popularity to protect his respected name.

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    A Boring Story: Anton Chekhov

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    1) Nikolay Stepanovitch is an emeritus professor and privy councillor in Russia who has received many decorations for his accomplishments and connections to distinguished men of learning over the past 25-30 years. 2) His name is well known in Russia and abroad as an honored and distinguished scholar. To criticize or misuse his name would be considered in poor taste. 3) He describes himself as having great industry, endurance, talent, and being well-educated, modest, and honest. He has avoided controversy or seeking popularity to protect his respected name.

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    A Boring Story

    by Anton Chekhov
    From the notebook of an old man
    I
    There is in Russia an emeritus Professor Nikolay Stepanovitch, a chevalier
    and privy councillor; he has so many Russian and foreign decorations that
    when he has occasion to put them on the students nickname him The
    Ikonstand. His acquaintances are of the most aristocratic; for the last twentyfive or thirty years, at any rate, there has not been one single distinguished
    man of learning in Russia with whom he has not been intimately acquainted.
    There is no one for him to make friends with nowadays; but if we turn to the
    past, the long list of his famous friends winds up with such names as Pirogov,
    Kavelin, and the poet Nekrasov, all of whom bestowed upon him a warm and
    sincere affection. He is a member of all the Russian and of three foreign
    universities. And so on, and so on. All that and a great deal more that might
    be said makes up what is called my name.
    That is my name as known to the public. In Russia it is known to every
    educated man, and abroad it is mentioned in the lecture-room with the
    addition honoured and distinguished. It is one of those fortunate names to
    abuse which or to take which in vain, in public or in print, is considered a sign
    of bad taste. And that is as it should be. You see, my name is closely
    associated with the conception of a highly distinguished man of great gifts and
    unquestionable usefulness. I have the industry and power of endurance of a
    camel, and that is important, and I have talent, which is even more important.
    Moreover, while I am on this subject, I am a well-educated, modest, and

    honest fellow. I have never poked my nose into literature or politics; I have
    never sought popularity in polemics with the ignorant; I have never made
    speeches either at public dinners or at the funerals of my friends. In fact,
    there is no slur on my learned name, and there is no complaint one can make
    against it. It is fortunate.

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